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> Lesné, who did not reply to requests for comment, remains a UMN professor and receives National Institutes of Health funding. The university has been investig
by elefanten 2y ago
> Lesné, who did not reply to requests for comment, remains a UMN professor and receives National Institutes of Health funding. The university has been investigating his work since June 2022. A spokesperson says UMN recently told Nature it had reviewed two images in question, and “has closed this review with no findings of research misconduct pertaining to these figures.” The statement did not reference several other questioned figures in the same paper. UMN did not comment on whether it had reached conclusions about other Lesné papers with apparently doctored images.
Horrifying. 2 years investigating and they’ve commented on two images?
- mike_hearn 2y agoIt's standard. Universities always drag these things out for years, and often acquit either without explanation or with an explanation like "this unfortunate event was caused merely by enormous incompetence", even when that can't possibly be true. Universities cannot/will not investigate their own staff properly.
- LgWoodenBadger 2y agoNo one (institutional or human), anywhere, can investigate themselves competently. It should never be acceptable.